From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Remote's 'currently active branch' not HEAD?
Message-ID: <20130903123733.GR12966@inner.h.apk.li>
In-Reply-To: <20130903114831.GA8559@inner.h.apk.li>

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:48:31 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote:
...
> I now have a sample repo that reproduces this behaviour.
> Unpack tar file, clone, see clone having 'wrong' branch
> checked out, apparently independent of the transport:

Ouch, it looks like 'git clone' doesn't actually know
the 'current remote branch' but picks one of those that
happen to have the HEAD *commit* as their tip.

At least the 'git clone' doc would be misleading then.

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800